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aie FD-350 (Rev, 11-11-75} ' Colorado SetsUj p Bund GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Mesa County authorities set up a roiling roadblock on I-70 and five officers screened airport passengers Friday after | receiving a phone tip that escaped murder suspect Theodore Bundy had hired a car to drive him to the . Grand Junction airport. Bundy failed to show, officers said. -—_— Mesa County Undersheriff Hod Hutchison woutd | not term the anonymous phone call a prank. He said such calls are common and that Friday's action was a routine law enforcement practice “in a case with a tian like this Bundy.” ~ Bundy escaped from the Garfield County jail at Glenwood Springs Dee. 30. He is charged with murder in the death of a Michigan nurse who \was vacationing in Aspen early in 1975. The alert went ou} Friday morning when tthe Garfield County Sheriff’s Office at Glenwood Springs received a phone cal! that a man matching Bundy’s description had walked into a bar at New Castle and o*fered to pay anyone $50 to drive him to the Grand | it 80 miles east of here. Janction airport, abou nileseastofhere. | | _ Garfield County Undershentf Robert mar queted the anonymous caller as saying the man fitting Bundy's description at the New Castle bar had to go to Grand Junction to catch an airplane for a flight to Nevada.” Hutchison said, ‘Hart called us, gave us 4 vague description of the car. So we watched the highway (1-70) for about three hours and nothin’ came by matching Bundy's description from J1 a.m. to about 2 mk P Hutchison said five officers checked traffic on outgving airplanes from Walker Fieid ali day ‘‘but , matching the description’ - ta. eee anwhnd: didnt see anyoody er a mtn | : (Mount Ciipping in Space Below} y Roadblock | (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Dates /- 77S Edition: =? 4 Author: Editor: 4 Title: er Y Character: * ocd yIS” aed Classification: ¥ f~G é - Submitting Office: ¢%. aa - | -